Partitions
A partition of a set X is a collection P of subsets of X such that:
P is a
covering for
X; i.e.,
⋃P∈P=X
Elements are pairwise-
disjoint; for
P1=P2∈P we have
P1∩P2=∅
∅∈/P
The collection
P={{n:n∈N is even},{k:k∈N is odd} is a partition of
N into its
even and
odd subsets